On 2018-10-27, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> >> Gene, the line >> >> > >dns-search hosts dns >> >> that you show above does not match anything documented by >> the manpages on wheezy. I checked >> interfaces(5) >> resolv.conf(5) >> resolvconf(8) >> nsswitch.conf(5) >> >> Gene, what are you trying to achieve with that line? > > Whatever it takes to get a working gateway at bootup. Next time I reboot, > I'll kill that line first. If I can't ping yahoo.com, (= no gateway. so > it cannot get to the internet) I'll put it back. >
It seems 'dns-search' is fairly well-known but undocumented, the flags (if that's the term) 'hosts' and 'dns' seem weird, though (and exclusive to your config). I'm reading: dns-search determines which domain is appended for dns lookups. Normally you will specify here the same domain as returned by hostname -f.* The dns-search entry would create a corresponding entry in /etc/resolv.conf (if you have resolvconf installed--or something, too complicated for my pea-brain). Maybe you know all this already. *(As per man resolv.conf: search Search list for host-name lookup. The search list is normally determined from the local domain name; by default, it contains only the local domain name. This may be changed by listing the desired domain search path following the search keyword with spaces or tabs separating the names.) So it seems your config would create the following entries in /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.NN.1 search hosts dns Anyway, hope I haven't added to the confusion rather than the contrary. -- "Now she understood that Anna could not have been in lilac, and that her charm was just that she always stood out against her attire, that her dress could never be noticeable on her." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
